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alphabetagaga

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Mar 28, 2011
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is this possible? eg i want to shuffle all soundtrack albums. and when an album starts it plays in track order 1, 2, 3 etc
 
Nope. The only iPod that can do this were the iPod Classic and the old nanos (before the current one).
It's a sad thing that Apple touted iOS as the "best iPod," yet it cannot even do what the classic can.

I think there's an app that allows you to do this (forget its name), but then you are using a much less polished 3rd party player, not the main music app.
 
thanks jessica i'll look into workflow. pity the stock music app can't cope with this. i know within itunes it is possible (though not straightforward to find) and figured it would be replicated on the music app
 
I'm just glad iTunes is still complicated. I look at these mockups from designers that play with new ideas and it's like, "Do you even use the program?".

Here is how you'd make it work by the way:

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To get around device limitations (the iPhone 5S can only have 8 workflows in the widget), you could also make it into a selection list. But it's very time consuming.
 
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